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I 'PAINT AND BRUSH BUCKET. No. 342,431. Patented May 25, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNA DORMITZER, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

PAINT AND BRUSH BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 342,431, dated May 25,1886.

Application filed December 30, 1885. Serial No. 187,120. (Model) To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNA DORMITZER, a citizen of the United States ofNorth America. and a resident of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paint and BrushBuckets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved device adaptedfor use by windowcleaners and house-painters, and especially designed tobe used in connection with win dow-cleaning chairs, painters jacks, andstepladders.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thespecification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front elevation of my'i mpror ed device. Fig. 2 is a planthereof. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation thereof.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the bucket, preferably ofellipsoidal shape in plan view and with sloping sides, as shown. One ofthe longer sides of the bucket has an outside vertical groove orindentation, a, formed in it, and soldered or otherwise firmly securedin this groove 0. is a tube, I), preferably slightly tapering frombottom to top,opeu at the bottom,and preferably closed at the top, whichtube is designed to extend somewhat above the rim of the bucket, asshown. This bucket is designed,when in use,to be fixed on the top of anupright rod, pole, or staffiwhich may be fixed to a window cleaningchair, painters jaek,or step-ladder, the tube b being fitted over thesaid pole or staff, so that the bucket shall be safely and steadily heldin position. The staff-tube]; being fixed in an outside groove of thebucket, and being extended above the rim thereof, it is evident that thebucket will be very securely held on a staffand without danger oftipping to the one side or the other, as it would if it were suspendedin the usual manner of buckets. Two or more pockets or receptacles. d d,are made in the bucket by a partition or partitions, f, as shown in Fig.2, wherein the pocket (1 is designed, say, for water or paint, and thepocket (1 for sponge or brush.

I know of no article of manufacture so well adapted as is this device tothe purposes a1- luded to.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a paint andbrush bucket constructed, substantially as herein shown and described,with a vertical outside groove, an upright tube rigidly fixed in saidgroove on one side of the bucket and adapted to fit over the end of asupporting staff orpole,and with one or more interior verticalpartitions forming two or more separate receptacles in the bucket, asset forth.

2. The combination, with the bucket-body A, of the tube b, fixedthereon, substantially as herein shown and described, said tube beingadapted and designed to serve for securing the bucket in operativeposition, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 28th day of December, 1885.

ANNA DORMITZER.

Witnesses:

JACOB J. SroRER, ALBERT P. MORIARTY.

